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Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12625078)

Hmmm...time to go back out there. I'm also toying with the folks in the UA thread. I feel like I have the fuzzy ball on the string and they're a bunch of cats dancing around it. I can torment at will, it seems. :D :D

Oh I was looking in UA land and not here.

The :rolleyes: has been truly strong today. Hope everyone is braving it as well as Mike and his popcorn. I'm off to make dinner. :)

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Originally Posted by Mackieman (Post 12625152)

The :rolleyes: has been truly strong today. Hope everyone is braving it as well as Mike and his popcorn. I'm off to make dinner. :)

I am off to suffer some more maybe, I can't even sleep. :rolleyes: pain!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Olton Hall (Post 12625099)

Oh I was looking in UA land and not here.

I'm playing in both. Why limit myself.

The pilot/author of Ask the Pilot has some pretty sweet photos and videos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/globetrodden/

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Originally Posted by xFF (Post 12622570)

What's happening over in the UA upgrade thread is what would have happened had there been an internet forum on which some Southerners could have posted in 1955: the rage associated with the death of a sense of entitlement.

Others have pointed out some of the more hilarious opinions (Now everyone eligible will be competing for upgrades! How is that fair?) The overt slams at CO elites (if they let those people in, I'm out of here) are too precious.

I'm sorry, but I find it pretty damned funny.

I'm surprised that no one jumped all over the poster who said that WN is a viable option. And you're right: the diatribes are eerily similar to UA being the whitefolk and CO being the beaten and downtrodden black man. Except for one difference: at least in terms of the Forum, the UA whiteboys occasionally liked to turn the fire hose on certain of their own people.

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Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12623180)

I haven't gotten the email from UA yet. I guess when I called their Media Relations department last night to get some infor I was blacklisted. :(

Haha.

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Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12623677)

And I am going to start calling it EUA now.

Passive aggression rules. ^ I'm in for using that too.

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Originally Posted by MBM3 (Post 12623806)

I am really getting annoyed with the trend of our forum towards unfriendly, confrontational behavior. :mad:

Forum? The country at large, my friend.

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Originally Posted by MBM3 (Post 12623932)

Including some folks in the 'Box who enjoy the sport of it all.... :eek:

I'll throw a flag on myself for that. I probably shouldn't have said that I am allergic to stupidity.

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Originally Posted by fozz (Post 12624100)

If only it was an olympic sport...

...I would be the Michael Phelps of that sport.

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Originally Posted by MBM3 (Post 12624266)

Agreeing to disagree and valuing differing opinions seems to be a lost art....

Polarization is the new globalization.

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Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12625441)

Polarization is the new globalization.

I am all for polarizing and all against globalizing, ^
People are different let them be so, it doesn't mean you have to actively turn the magnets all the time :)

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Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 12625344)

The pilot/author of Ask the Pilot has some pretty sweet photos and videos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/globetrodden/

He's an FTer. Handle is GateHold.

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Originally Posted by Olton Hall (Post 12624900)

I'm sure they'll be very happy with the middle seat back row of a 737 where the seats are narrower with two line backers on each side of them. Or they could be over one seat and be the stink shield. :rolleyes:

Here's one:

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On some equipment yes I would. I may be in the minority, but I would actually prefer 9C on a 2 class 757.

Depending on the flight (meal?redeye?snack?) I will put 9C and a luxe box/red wine combo up against most aspects of the F cabin:
*legroom->9C
*food-> 9C (depending on what is served in F, and it will cost you $15 bucks)
*embark/disembark-> 9C
*seat size->F cabin
*warm nuts-> F cabin ;)

Anyway, yeah I would take 9C over F on most 757 flights even as a 1K with instruments in hand.

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Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12625483)

He's an FTer. Handle is GateHold.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/12041760-post1.html

:)

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*food-> 9C (depending on what is served in F, and it will cost you $15 bucks)

I'm :confused:, how is that an advantage?

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*embark/disembark-> 9C

I'd trade those 30 seconds for F any day.:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by cheepneezy (Post 12625623)

I'm :confused:, how is that an advantage?

I'd trade those 30 seconds for F any day.:rolleyes:

I never said that the post made sense. I simply am pointing out that one of them actually prefers Y.

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Originally Posted by cheepneezy (Post 12624686)

I'm sensing a missed opportunity.;) Though CM seems to have it covered.

Not as expertly done as you, but I managed to lasso fozz's face onto the Fantasia-clad Mickey Mouse.

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Originally Posted by bdjohns1 (Post 12624736)

Not all of us UA flyers are self-entitled :rolleyes:s. Some of us are good little PWPers. ^

Teh PWP thanks you for your glorious and loyal service, Komrade.

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Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12624829)

But it is quite entertaining to read some of their posts where they try to justify why scheming and manipulating is a better solution - because it is better for them personally.

They worked hard to acquire the knowledge and it is being rendered irrelevant. As I've said before and will surely say again, I am thrilled that said knowledge base will become extinct because with it disappears their MO for making people feel unwelcome and stupid. Their arrogance, haughtiness, and self-importance goes right down the toilet...with their presence on FT, hopefully.

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Originally Posted by J.Edward (Post 12624990)

Oh well at least CM was clever enough to bring popcorn. :D

Upgrades for extra butter!

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Originally Posted by Mackieman (Post 12625152)

The :rolleyes: has been truly strong today. Hope everyone is braving it as well as Mike and his popcorn. I'm off to make dinner. :)

I am taking great joy in seeing their world as they know it basically collapse. They all knew it was coming and refused to believe that they were contributing to it. The death of anything that is built on a foundation of hubris makes me incredibly happy.

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Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 12623244)

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fall_foliage.png

The geek in me loves this.

When I firsst saw that earlier today I thought it was volcano or something. DUH!

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Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12625669)

I never said that the post made sense. I simply am pointing out that one of them actually prefers Y.

I'd be willing to bet that some of the people in that thread who prefer Y would fail a posting history fact check. They all of a sudden prefer Y because C and/or F may or may not be populated with invaders from CO, who in their eyes are not as good and decent of a human being.